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Posts tagged with 'sciencefiction' at Fanfare.Wed, 20 May 2015 07:05:49 -0800Wed, 20 May 2015 07:05:49 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Passengerhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3402/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DThe%2DPassenger%2DRewatch
Captured criminal Rao Vantika dies in Bashir's arms... or did he? <center>--<br>
<b>Bashir</b>: "Fate has granted me a gift, Major: a gift to be a healer."<br>
<b>Kira</b>: "I feel privileged to be in your presence."<br>
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<strong>Notes</strong> <i>(Cribbed from <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Passenger">here</a>.)</i><br>
* Morgan Gendel's original story was to have Kajada possessed by Vantika. Gendel commented "I thought the idea of a cop who's chasing himself was something you could only do in a science fiction show. <br>
* Gendel also scripted a song for Quark to sing but decided not to use it: "I had [Quark] singing a whole little ditty, like a Hobbit. I took a day to write this ditty about making money while he's serving people and shorting them on their drinks. I thought it was hysterical and also thought if I turned it in, they were going to laugh me out of the room". <br>
* All of Alexander Siddig's original on-set dialogue as Vantika in the episode was dubbed in post-production. Rick Berman: "We had a very odd experience on the show. Siddig made a choice of a voice that didn't work for us. It was too Bela Lugosi-like, and we replaced his entire part with him again, but we had him do it a different way. We didn't really know if it would work or not, but it was fine".<br>
* Several people involved with the episode commented on Quark's role, as his actions are the first illegal action the character was involved in in the series. Armin Shimerman commented: "He is still the middle-man. I say that in the episode, 'I'm just the middle-man', when they ask me if I'm going with them. He's just trying to make a buck. But it was a darker Quark, getting back to the Quark of I think of in "Emissary". And that's good. Anytime that I get close to that I feel a little bit better. I feel more confident with that. Drama is always easier to play than comedy". Paul Lynch commented: "[Quark] is suckered in over his head by his own greed. He doesn't really go looking for trouble, and if he had known what he was getting into he wouldn't have, but his own greed overruled him".tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3402Wed, 20 May 2015 07:05:49 -0800zarqStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Q-Lesshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3325/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DQ%2DLess%2DRewatch
Campy, omnipotent prankster god Q visits DS9 to spar with Sisko, accompanied by <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Vash">Vash</a>. <center>--<br>
<b>Q</b>: "Still chasing your own tail? Picard and his lackeys would have solved all this technobabble hours ago. <br>
No wonder you're not commanding a starship."<br>
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<b>Notes</b> <i>(Cribbed from <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Q-Less_%28episode%29">here</a>)</i><br>
* According to the Deep Space Nine Companion, the scene in which Q is surprised that Sisko has hit him, is a sign of the writers' attempts to differentiate Sisko's character from Jean-Luc Picard. Robert Hewitt Wolfe says of the difference between the two characters "Picard is an explorer, and in some ways, very much an intellectual. Sisko is a builder, a different kind of guy. He wears his heart a little more on his sleeve, and he acts on emotion, on instinct, more than Picard." Furthermore, de Lancie himself points out, "Q's relationship with Picard has always been a battle of wits, but I come into Deep Space Nine, and Sisko just bopped me on the nose! From a character point of view, that's a very big difference."<br>
* Armin Shimerman enjoyed watching Avery Brooks and John de Lancie film as de Lancie had been playing Q for five years at the time of the episode and "Q-Less" was just the fifth Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode after the pilot "Emissary". Shimerman commented: "It was interesting to watch the two of them together. It was an interesting dynamic because Avery is the lead and so he has the responsibility and that recognition in himself. Yet John de Lancie came on the set with his own agenda, which is that he has played Q quite often and is very familiar with his end and thought of us sort of as the new kids. We were the regulars, he was the guest star, but he felt like he was the regular and we were the visitors". de Lancie replied to this: "I love that Armin quote. I think that one of the things I had to be careful about is I couldn't be so chameleon like as to be a different character just because I was on a different set. I had to carry on in the way that I know works for The Next Generation and carry it into the new show so it would be seamless in a way. There would be kind of a bigness about Q that maybe permeates the tide pool". <br>
* Ira Behr enjoyed writing Q's line about technobabble, commenting "it was a line we wrote with great glee, because at that point we hated the goddamned technobabble". <br>
* This episode contains Deep Space Nine's third reference to the animated television series Ren and Stimpy. The name of the planet Hoek IV in the episode is named after the main character "Ren Höek." The first two Ren and Stimpy references are found in "Babel", where the Ren and Stimpy inspired names Surmak Ren and Spumco are referenced.<br>
* This episode features six characters who also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Chief O'Brien, Dr. Bashir, Quark, Q, Vash, and Morn (although only O'Brien, Q, and Vash originated on TNG). <br>
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<b>Odo</b>: <em>[channeling George Carlin]</em>: "I'll never understand this obsession with accumulating material wealth. You spend your entire life plotting and scheming to acquire more and more possessions until your living areas are bursting with useless junk. Then you die, your relatives sell everything, and start the cycle all over again."<br>
--</center>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3325Wed, 13 May 2015 07:14:47 -0800zarqStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Babelhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3256/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DBabel%2DRewatch
A deadly aphasia virus hits DS9. Kira tries to track down an antidote. <center>--<br>
<b>O'Brien</b>: "'Fix the replicators, chief!' 'My console's offline, chief!' Should've transferred to a cargo drone. No people, no complaints."<br>
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<strong>Themes / Of Note</strong> <em>(Mild Spoilers)</em><br>
* Echoes of the Cardassian Occupation and Bajoran Resistance Movement<br>
* Quark cites an “old Ferengi saying” that you should never ask when you can take. The Rules of Acquisition haven't yet been created on the show. <br>
* Character development: Sisko and Jake's relationship (Possibly the first parent/child interaction in any incarnation of Trek that’s purely positive.)<br>
* Character development: Odo and Quark's relationship<br>
* Character development: Kira's new role, which again puts her at odds with the former Bajoran Resistant Movement. <br>
* Offhand Mention That Will Become A Thing Later: Jake says he's been hanging out with Nog.<br>
* O'Brien dealing with the malfunctioning station.<br>
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<b>Notes</b> <em>(mostly cribbed from <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Babel_%28episode%29">here</a>)</em> <br>
* The episode title is (obviously) a reference to the biblical Tower of Babel<br>
* Babel has its roots in TNG's problem-of-the-week style episodes. <br>
* This episode contains two references from the animated television series <em>Ren and Stimpy</em>. The first reference used was in the name of the Bajoran, Surmak Ren, who was named after the co-main character "Ren Höek." The second reference was made in the name of the Cardassian Gul Spumco, who was named after Spümcø, the animation studio responsible for the Ren and Stimpy series. A third Ren and Stimpy reference would appear two episodes later, in "Q-Less", in the name of the planet Hoek IV, which was again named after "Ren Höek." Ira Steven Behr chose to show episodes of <em>The Ren and Stimpy Show</em> to improve relations between the writers. <br>
* The scene where Sisko goes into the infirmary to find Jake has come down with the aphasia virus was extremely important to actor Avery Brooks because it was the first scene to establish the 'physical' intimacy between father and son -- an aspect of the characters' onscreen relationship that was initiated by Brooks himself; "It wasn't a thematic element. I don't have any trouble being physical with my children. That's a part of my nature, as opposed to something they wrote about Sisko and Jake. The first day I met Cirroc, I hugged him. And I hug him every time I see him."<br>
* This episode is a favorite of actor Armin Shimerman as he feels it is here that he really began to get a handle on the character of Quark. Speaking of the moment when Quark is left in charge of Ops, and is clearly loving the situation, Shimerman comments that he realized "Ah, this is the character, this guy who likes to have a good time, who enjoys life and who feels that no problem is insurmountable. And that fun-loving spirit and delight became ingrained in my character at that moment."<br>
* After he repaired the replicator at the beginning of the episode O'Brien ordered his coffee "black, double sweet" which is consistent with his coffee order in TNG's "Rascals".<br>
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<center>--<br>
<b>Quark</b>: "I'll beam you over."<br>
<b>Odo</b>: "You?"<br>
<b>Quark</b>: "Relax. I served on a Ferengi freighter for eight years."<br>
<b>Odo</b>: "All right."<br>
<b>Quark</b>: "I must have witnessed the procedure hundreds of times!"<br>
<b>Odo</b>: "WITNESSED?! You mean to say you never handled the controls yourself?"<br>
<b>Quark</b>: "Energizing!" *waves*<br>
--</center>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3256Tue, 05 May 2015 22:54:59 -0800zarqStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Prologuehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/3186/Star%2DTrek%2DDeep%2DSpace%2DNine%2DPast%2DPrologue%2DRewatch
A member of the Bajoran underground seeks asylum on DS9, attracting the attention of the Cardassians and Klingons, and testing Kira's loyalties. <center>--<br>
<strong>Garak</strong>: <em>"Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak."</em><br>
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<strong>Themes</strong> <i>(Mild Spoilers)</i><br>
* “Bajor for Bajorans!” Bajor’s progression from an oppressed and occupied world to player on the galactic stage. <br>
* Bajoran freedom fighters adapting to the new world order. <br>
* Character development: Garak, Odo, Bashir, Kira, Sisko <br>
* Klingons and Cardassians as power players in DS9's neck of the woods. <br>
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<strong>Introduced in this episode</strong><br>
* <strong>Garak</strong>, a Cardassian tailor and Promenade shopkeeper of <em>Garak's Clothiers</em> who lives on Deep Space 9. He's an exile from the Cardassian Empire. <br>
* Federation <strong>Admiral Rollman</strong>, played by Susan Bay, widow of Star Trek <strike>alum</strike> legend Leonard "Spock" Nimoy. Mrs. Bay will return in the Season 2 episode "Whispers."<br>
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<center>--<br>
<strong>Odo</strong>: <em>"You know, Cardassian rule may have been oppressive but at least it was... simple."</em><br>
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<strong>Notes</strong> (mostly cribbed from <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Past_Prologue_%28episode%29">here</a>) <br>
* This was the very first episode of the entire Star Trek franchise in which no ship named Enterprise appears.<br>
* This episode marks the first time Dr. Bashir uses the expression, <em>"I'm a doctor, not a...."</em><br>
* Getting Garak's characterization right was important to both the crew and his actor, Andrew Robinson. Of the origins of the character, producer Peter Allan Fields says that "we needed a Cardassian who didn't act like one, so I finally put him in a tailor shop, and nobody hit me, so we kept him there." Director Winrich Kolbe says of the performance that "we agreed that Andy could push the envelope, but he couldn't leave the Cardassian platform. We had long talks about wardrobe and makeup, but we also talked about attitude, so that he would retain that stiffness that you see in all Cardassians." Finally, Andrew Robinson himself says of the character, "he's all subtext. If a smart guy like Garak says that he's 'plain and simple', you realize that he's not plain and not simple. And that there is a lot going on. Regardless of how innocuous or simple each line is, there's always something going on underneath that belies the line. And his eyes and the tone of his voice say something different than the words he's speaking. It's not an easy thing to work with subtext, but when you do it well, you really get people's attention."<br>
* Garak was also given a tailor shop as an homage to <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E.</em> (for which Peter Allan Fields was a writer): the secret entrance to U.N.C.L.E. headquarters was in Del Floria’s tailor shop.<br>
* Nana Visitor requested Kira's hairstyle be changed from the pilot episode: "I just didn't feel that Major Kira would style her hair every day. She wouldn't care! I wanted a hairstyle that looked like she just woke up in the morning looking like that."<br>
* The sentiments Tahna Los expresses toward the Federation, as well as his phrase "Bajor for Bajorans," come back in the beginning of season two with a three-part story arc ("The Homecoming", "The Circle", "The Siege") involving an extremist faction known as Alliance for Global Unity. <br>
* The Cardassian method of torture, via a pain-inducing implant under the skin that leaves an unpleasant scar as seen in TNG: "Chain of Command, Part II" is referred to in this episode, as Julian Bashir notes scarring on Tahna Los during a medical exam.<br>
* This is the first time that the Klingons appear on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.<br>
* This episode marks the only appearances of Lursa (Barbara March) and B'Etor (Gwynyth Walsh), the Duras sisters, on the series. However, their mirror universe counterparts, Lursa and B'Etor, would later be mentioned in "Crossover" and their nephew Toral appears in "The Sword of Kahless".<br>
* Kira and Odo's friendship is established in this episode. <br>
* Among the clothes seen in Garak's shop is the costume worn by Steven Miller in TNG: "Haven", the Risa outfit worn by Sovak in "Captain's Holiday" and one of Kamala's dresses from "The Perfect Mate".<br>
* Sisko mentions the Klingon Civil War, which took place in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Redemption" and "Redemption II". This episode reveals the House of Duras are attempting to rebuild their forces by making profit.<br>
* This was Star Trek recurring actor Vaughn Armstrong's first appearance on DS9. He had previously played <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Korris">Commander Korris</a> on TNG's "Heart of Glory." His next appearance on the show would be the episode "When It Rains..." where he would play a Cardassian, Seskal.<br>
* With the appearance of the <em>Ganges</em>, all three runabouts assigned to the station have been named. They’re all named after Earth rivers, a trend that will continue throughout the series.<br>
* The episode title comes from "what's past is prologue" from The Tempest, act 2, scene 1, by William Shakespeare.<br>
* This episode suggests that the value of gold pressed latinum is measured in weight, but future episodes firmly establish that it is measured in units of slips, strips, and bars.<br>
* Babylon 5's Patricia "Lyta Alexander" Tallman was Nana Visitor's stunt double for this episode.<br>
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<center>--<br>
<strong>Sisko</strong>: [to Kira] <em>Go over my head again, and I'll have yours on a platter.</em><br>
--</center>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.3186Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:41:38 -0800zarq12 Monkeys: Yesterdayhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2624/12%2DMonkeys%2DYesterday
In 2015, Railly travels to Chechnya to see if Cole is still there, alive or dead. In 2043, Ramse travels to the Project Spearhead headquarters, where they're trying to develop a cure for the plague, to acquire a needed part.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2624Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:06:37 -0800DevilsAdvocate12 Monkeys: The Keyshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2527/12%2DMonkeys%2DThe%2DKeys
Cole, Dr. Railly and Aaron strive to stop the virus from being deployed as a bio-weapon in Chechnya.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2527Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:06:05 -0800DevilsAdvocate12 Monkeys: The Night Roomhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2345/12%2DMonkeys%2DThe%2DNight%2DRoom
Cole and Dr. Railly face off with the Army of the 12 Monkeys when both discover the Night Room—an off-site, black ops lab that houses the virus that will one day destroy the world.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2345Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:02:19 -0800DevilsAdvocate12 Monkeys: Atarihttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2250/12%2DMonkeys%2DAtari
A fight for the future ensues when a dangerous band of marauders hunting for Cole and Ramse threatens the mission to save the past. Bookended by brief scenes in 2015, this episode takes place almost entirely in the future (2032, 2035, 2043).tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2250Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:03:09 -0800DevilsAdvocate12 Monkeys: Cassandra Complexhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2171/12%2DMonkeys%2DCassandra%2DComplex
Cole's search for the location of the virus leads him to 2014, and to a devastating moment in Dr. Railly's life involving a dangerous outbreak in Haiti.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2171Sat, 31 Jan 2015 05:02:55 -0800DevilsAdvocate12 Monkeys: Mentally Divergenthttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2084/12%2DMonkeys%2DMentally%2DDivergent
The trail of a mysterious organization called the “Army of the 12 Monkeys” leads Cole to a mental institution in 2015, where a patient holds the key to the plague that destroys the world. Meanwhile, despite warnings that her involvement may disrupt the course of history, Dr. Railly risks her life to help him.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2084Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:57:11 -0800DevilsAdvocateThe Man in the High Castle? http://fanfare.metafilter.com/2005/The%2DMan%2Din%2Dthe%2DHigh%2DCastle
It's just a pilot on Amazon at the moment, but an ambitious adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel seems like our kind of thing, yeah?tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2005Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:38:07 -0800kittens for breakfast12 Monkeys: Pilothttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/2001/12%2DMonkeys%2DPilot
27 years after a virus wipes out most of humanity, scientists send a man back to 2015 to stop the plague from ever happening. Cole's only lead is a virologist, who knows the dangerous source of the outbreak.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2015:site.2001Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:27:49 -0800DevilsAdvocateMovie: Source Codehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/1358/Source%2DCode
<b>CRFC3</b>: In <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Source Code</a>, Jake Gyllenhaal plays soldier Colter Stevens who finds himself in an experimental computer simulation, taking on the life of another in a desperate attempt to find the person who bombed a commuter train in Chicago. This is the third installment in the Constructed Reality Film Club. Previously we've also watched <a href="http://fanfare.metafilter.com/1101/eXistenZ">eXistenZ</a> and <a href="http://fanfare.metafilter.com/1222/Strange-Days">Strange Days</a>. The club is moving from bi-weekly to weekly, and next monday we'll be discussing the beautiful animated movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Paprika</a>.<br>
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Resources:<br>
This film isn't available for Instant or Prime streaming, unfortunately. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0053F042G/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">However, there is a rental available from Amazon.</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/movies/jake-gyllenhaal-in-source-code-review.html?_r=0">The original NYT review of the movie.</a><br>
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What's up with that ending? <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/spout/source_code_ending">IndieWire</a> has some ideas. As does <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1661249/jake-gyllenhaal-source-code/">Gyllenhaal and the director, Duncan Jones</a>. <a href="http://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/04/05/source-code-pseudoscience/">OverThinkingIt</a> also does what its title claims and provides analysis.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.1358Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:33:04 -0800codacorollaDefiance: Doll Partshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/661/Defiance%2DDoll%2DParts
The second of two episodes aired this week, Doll Parts opens with the death of Treasure Doll, aka Deirdre, aka Future Ms. Alak Tar Wannabe, and sets off an investigation by a temporarily deputized Amanda to solve the murder. The Irisa and Ark Rise storyline continues with Nolan's attempt to rescue his daughter running into obstacles and we learn a little more on what the what is going on. Christy is shown in a new light, while the Tars gain a new handmaiden to replace their last. Also, Stahma partakes in charity.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.661Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:53:06 -0800AtreidesDefiance: If You Could See Her Through My Eyeshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/479/Defiance%2DIf%2DYou%2DCould%2DSee%2DHer%2DThrough%2DMy%2DEyes
Datak and Stahma temporarily unite to uncover the killer of a beloved Tarr family slave, while Amanda learns more about William Atherton's Viceroy Mercado's plans for the future of the mayorship of Defiance. Deirdre, Alak's DJ in the Arch, continues to manipulate both him and Christy, striving to tear their marriage apart while playing sympathetic to both. Christy continues her visits to the Janus Club dressed as a Castithan and is discovered by Alak. Finally, Nolan discovers the truth about Irisa. Come for the eye gouging, stay for Atherton's jazzy solo vocals that concludes the episode! "There are two types of friends in this world. The kind that helps you hide a dead whore, and me.” - Doc Yewlltag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.479Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:09:00 -0800AtreidesDefiance: This Woman's Workhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/433/Defiance%2DThis%2DWomans%2DWork
Stahma's rise to power runs headlong into the dogmatic views of Castithan patriarchy and the question arises, is it time for a Castithan feminist movement. Good Tommy surprisingly returns after an angry confrontation between him and Nolan over loyalty, and he finally discovers Irisa's secret. Meanwhile, the Earth Republic mayor is sent on a mission to recover an important piece of alien technology that has crashed near Defiance and forced to take Nolan along for his expertise. Lastly, Rafe suggests inviting Datak over for dessert. There's also a Castithan cosplay segment for two reoccurring cast members and Berlin takes her clothes off twice, but only wants to film it once.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.433Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:15:50 -0800AtreidesMovie: Repo Manhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/268/Repo%2DMan
Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton star as "repo men" who get caught up in a series of bizarre adventures involving G-men, a nuclear scientist, UFO cultists and revolutionaries. Put your seat belt on and enjoy the wild ride in this groundbreaking, punk-rock, sci-fi black comedy! The first entry in the cult film club. Here's some additional material:<br>
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<a href="http://www.alexcox.com/dir_repoman.htm">Director Alex Cox discusses the film</a><br>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/04/29/repo-man-criterion-release-an.html">Criterion interviews Cox about the film</a><br>
<a href="http://www.myfreakinears.com/plate-o-shrimp-repo-man-soundtrack-30-years-later/">A discussion of the film's icnonic soundtrack</a><br>
<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~aimsters4/afilm85.htm">Emilio Estevez discussing the film in 1985</a><br>
<a href="http://www.waldoshawaiianholiday.com/">Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, the comic book sequel to Repo Man</a><br>
<a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/repo-chick/5238">Repo Chick, the not-actually-a-sequel by the same director and starring many of the original cast members, but as different characters</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men">Repo Men, a dystopian sci fi film originally called Repossession Mambo but possibly remained to trade on confusion about Alex Cox's faux Repo Man sequel</a>tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.268Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:14:54 -0800mathowieOrphan Black: By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Triedhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/228/Orphan%2DBlack%2DBy%2DMeans%2DWhich%2DHave%2DNever%2DYet%2DBeen%2DTried
In which Sarah makes a sacrifice for her daughter, Kira learns about Science! Cosima and Scott try to help Sarah and Rachel see eye to eye, a new dimension of the conspiracy behind Dyad is revealed, and the Clone Club has a dance party. Season finale.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.228Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:13:14 -0800homunculusContinuum: The Dying Minuteshttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/208/Continuum%2DThe%2DDying%2DMinutes
John Doe's revelations force Liber8 to regroup and its members to reconsider their mission. A new character, The Traveller, is introduced. Carlos pulls himself together. The Freelancers face a familiar enemy.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.208Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:46:50 -0800zarqContinuum: 3 Minutes to Midnighthttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/207/Continuum%2D3%2DMinutes%2Dto%2DMidnight
The pieces begin to come together: A direct attack from Liber8 puts John Doe and Kiera in danger. But now that John Doe has learned more about his past and future, his revelations could change everything.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.207Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:46:48 -0800zarqContinuum: Revolutions Per Minutehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/206/Continuum%2DRevolutions%2DPer%2DMinute
A shocking discovery is made by Kiera, whose connection with the mysterious John Doe grows deeper. At the same time, her relationship with the Freelancers becomes more strained. Meanwhile, Alec crosses the Rubicon to protect his legacy.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.206Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:46:45 -0800zarqOrphan Black: Things Which Have Never Yet Been Donehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/193/Orphan%2DBlack%2DThings%2DWhich%2DHave%2DNever%2DYet%2DBeen%2DDone
Cosima takes a turn for the worse, forcing Sarah to take desperate action – with tragic consequences for those she loves. The Proletheans set their ultimate plan in motion. Alison and Donnie tangle with the law.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.193Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:19:41 -0800joethefobContinuum: Minute of Silencehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/145/Continuum%2DMinute%2Dof%2DSilence%2DAirdate%2DMay%2D25%2D2014%2DCanada%2DMay%2D30%2D2014%2DUS
Someone is stealing cutting-edge technology and using it to commit crimes. A man wakes up in a Vancouver hospital with amnesia. The only name he remembers: "Kiera Cameron." Airdate: May 25, 2014 (Canada) / May 30, 2014 (US)tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.145Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:37:18 -0800zarqContinuum: So Do Our Minutes Hastenhttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/66/Continuum%2DSo%2DDo%2DOur%2DMinutes%2DHasten%2D2014%2D05%2D11%2DCanada%2D2014%2D05%2D23%2DUS
Carlos gets some. Travis is missing because <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnWwb6zCAAA6L3B.jpg">he's traveled to Toronto to meet with Siobhan</a>. Other things happen, but I've already forgotten what they were. Airdates: 2014-05-11 (Canada), 2014-05-23 (US)tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.66Tue, 13 May 2014 21:07:26 -0800Ivan FyodorovichOrphan Black: Governed as It Were by Chancehttp://fanfare.metafilter.com/48/Orphan%2DBlack%2DGoverned%2Das%2DIt%2DWere%2Dby%2DChance
Sarah investigates Mrs. S's mysterious past while Cosima investigates the mysterious photograph, and Alison and Helena each awaken to find themselves under someone else's control.tag:fanfare.metafilter.com,2014:site.48Sun, 11 May 2014 10:55:05 -0800homunculus